Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff

(ARCCA)

Acceptance test completion

20 August 2008

ARCCA is pleased to announce the successful completion of the acceptance tests phase and that "Merlin" has now entered the final two month successful running stage. Although taking approximately two weeks longer than anticipated, it was a great achievement to get such a complex system through a stringent set of tests in a relatively short period of time.

This involved a lot of commitment and dedicated effort from both Bull engineers (France and UK) and ARCCA staff, with regular progress review meetings to ensure problems were quickly acknowledged and resolved. Challenges were certainly thrown up by some of these tests and it is of great credit to those involved in the process that these were resolved in such a timely fashion.